BEST IN INDIAN SPORTS.


  1. P.T. Usha (1984 Los Angeles Olympics): P.T. Usha was at the peak of her powers and was a real hope in the 400 m hurdles. Usha clocked 56.81 seconds in the heats and 55.54 seconds, finishing fourth, trailing the eventual bronze medalist by an agonising 1/100th of a second.
  2. Milkha Singh (1960 Rome Olympics): Milkha Singh had been clocking impressive timings in the run up to the games and had beaten most of the top contenders at various meets. Expectations were sky high, but the Flying Sikh miscalculated his run when it mattered most and finished fourth. That's a memory that still rankles the great sprinter.
  3. Limba Ram (1992 Barcelona Olympics): The archer came closest to Olympic podium at the 1992 Games in Barcelona. Just ahead of Barcelona, Ram had equalled Takayoshi Matsushita's world record in the Beijing Asian Archery Championships in the 30 m event with a score of 357/360 for gold. Fans were counting on him for a repeat performance in the Olympics. However, he fell short by a single point in the 70 m competition, and missed out on the bronze. 
  4. Leander Paes/Mahesh Bhupathi versus Ivan Ljubicic/Mario Ancic (2004 Athens Olympics): In 2004, the pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi was rated as the finest doubles players in the world. All of them was certain that the duo would return with a medal from Athens. Things did not go as per plan and they were beaten by the wild card Croatian pair of Mario Ancic and Ivan Ljubicic in the bronze-medal play-off. The Indians had numerous opportunities to shut out the match, but were pipped 6-7(5), 6-4, 14-16 in three hours and 58 minutes in a nerve-racking contest that began on a Friday night and ended in the early hours the next day.
  5. Abhinav Bhindra (2016 Rio Olympics): India's only individual gold medalist at the Olympics came extremely close to winning another medal before he ended up finishing fourth in the 10 m air rifle event in Rio. Tied on 163.8  points after 16 shots with the eventual silver-medalist Serhiy Kullish of Ukraine, Bindra shot a 10.0 to Kullish's 10.5, depriving the Beijing Games gold winner of a fairy tale ending in his fifth Olympics.
  6. India versus Korea (Men's Hockey Final (2002 Busan Asian Games): Defending champions India fell to hosts Korea 4-3 in the final despite putting up a courageous display. They were buoyed by a splendid 4-3 win over a strong Pakistan side in the semi-finals and young defender Jugraj Singh almost did the star turn for India. But His shoulder-charge of an opponent led to a penalty corner off which the Koreans scored the winner in front of a stadium packed with memories of the Indian contingent who had come to see an Indian triumph.
----C.S. Chakravarthy-----------------------------------------------------------------    

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